Volume 124 Issue 99
Friday, February 17, 2012
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LOVE: SHARING SPACES Find out if you and your partner are ready to move in together.
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ENTERTAINMENT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOTTLENECK Celebrating a quarter decade of live music in downtown Lawrence.
SCHOOL: MASTER OF THE MINUTES Tips for time management.
ENTERTAINMENT:
MOVIE REVIEW
Friends with benefits doesn't sound so friendly this time around.
CAMPUS & TOWN:
WHAT IT'S LIKE
Being the victim of Grand
Theft Auto.
PLAY: DRINK THIS...
WASSSAIL
This hot holiday cider is sweet and spiced, and you can add brandy to it!
over: Andrew Haverkamp. resident of the Olive house
Cover: Andrew Haverkamp, resident of the Olive house
PHOTO BY JESSICA JANASZ
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"You get a minimal budget, a minimal set so that it's only about your acting and your directing," Luffkin said. "This is supposed to be about the students that you're directing and what you can get out of them as far as your acting ability."
Lufkin was excited about the chance to direct a project since opportunities for aspiring theater directors are often limited. But being in charge of the show isn't easy. Her first task was choosing a one-act play that could be successfully staged with the available
This year Lukin, a junior from Melbourne, Fla. was the one student selected by the University Theatre Department to direct a one-act play.
A limited budget, a month of rehearsal and a cast and crew comprised completely of students could be a director's worst nightmare. For Jacci Lufkin, it was a dream come true.
"It's a totally different experience from anything I've had," Roschitz
The length of the show also allowed Lufkin and her actors, Julie Miller, a senior from Hutchinson, and Alex Roschitz, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., to develop both the comedy and drama of the play. Roschitz said that being a part of a two person cast was something he had never done before, but it gave him an opportunity to explore his character and play off of Miller. Working with a student director instead of a professor or an outside director was also something new.
"It's so unique for a university to have this kind of opportunity for the students, just to have the group and the performance opportunities." Perez-Abraham said.
The second performance is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are available on the University Theatre website.
After "Auto-da-fe," the recently formed group, Musical Theatre for Kansas, will perform a thirty-minute musical love story. Gil Perez-Abraham, a junior from Wichita, said the group members, like Lufkin, were excited to have a chance to show off skills that aren't always showcased in the theater department.
Edited by Anna Allen
1930s New Orleans, the story focuses on a mother soliciting gossip from her son, who is struggling with a secret. Lufkin was drawn to the one-act play because of its emotional intensity, but also because it required little set design.
Student Union Activities hosted a dodgeball tournament that consisted of 10 teams, and each team had seven players with at least three women on the team. The tournament started out as double-elimination, which means a team must lose twice to be eliminated from the tournament. After half the teams were eliminated, the tournament switched to a roundrobin format where all five teams played each other once. The teams with the two best records would face off in a best two out of three series.
The tournament used prison ball rules, which differ slightly from regular dodgeball rules. If you are hit anywhere on the body, including your face or head, you're out. The ball is live until it touches a ceiling, a wall or floors. This means a ball is still live if it bounces off a player, which is different from normal dodgeball, where a ball is only live if it has not touched anything.
"It's so raw; it's so easy without anything else," Lufkin said. "You could do this in a park. You could do this in a stairwell."
personal. Decisions were never 'I'm right, you're wrong."
When you're hit you go to "prison",
which is located on the opposing
"Whether it's dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgets."
DAKOTA STRANGE
SUA Spirit Coordinator
of prison ball rules is the "shame ball", which is larger than the rest of the balls. If a teammate catches the shame ball while he or she is in prison, two teammates can get out of prison.
SUA opened the tournament up to all students, but it was geared more toward student organizations. The winning team received $225, and second place winners received $150.
The Sports Management Club captured first place and the $225.
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Dakota Strange, spirit coordinator in SUA, was happy to see a student organization win first place. The tournament was originally exclusive for student organizations, but because of the lack of teams, SUA opened it up to all students.
Strange said SUA held this tournament to benefit student organizations and to help with its budgets. He also hopes to make this an annual event.
"It was a good showing from student organizations, and we received a lot of positive feedback." Strange said. "We want to continue events like this in the future. Whether its dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgues."
— Edited by Corinne Westeman
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Today's Weather
Beautiful day with sunny skies and light winds between 5-10mph
Good day to wash the Trans Am.